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Continue   /kəntˈɪnju/   Listen
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verb
(past & past part. continued; pres. part. continuing)
1.
Continue a certain state, condition, or activity.  Synonyms: go along, go on, keep, proceed.  "We continued to work into the night" , "Keep smiling" , "We went on working until well past midnight"  Antonym: discontinue.
2.
Continue talking.  Synonyms: carry on, go on, proceed.  "But there is no choice" , "Carry on--pretend we are not in the room"
3.
Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last.  Synonyms: bear on, carry on, preserve, uphold.  "Continue the family tradition" , "Carry on the old traditions"  Antonym: discontinue.
4.
Move ahead; travel onward in time or space.  Synonyms: go forward, proceed.  "She continued in the direction of the hills" , "We are moving ahead in time now"
5.
Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature.  Synonyms: keep, keep on, retain.  "She retains a lawyer" , "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff" , "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on" , "We kept the work going as long as we could" , "She retained her composure" , "This garment retains its shape even after many washings"
6.
Do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop.  Synonym: persist in.  "The landlord persists in asking us to move"
7.
Continue after an interruption.
8.
Continue in a place, position, or situation.  Synonyms: remain, stay, stay on.  "Stay with me, please" , "Despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year" , "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"
9.
Span an interval of distance, space or time.  Synonyms: cover, extend.  "The period covered the turn of the century" , "My land extends over the hills on the horizon" , "This farm covers some 200 acres" , "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles"
10.
Exist over a prolonged period of time.






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... business is natural and indeed expected. In wartime no one should be harassed by criticism. So I pass on to the paper which I like best of all those now being published. I like it because it contains the news I most want to read, and every day, or rather every night, it gets better and will continue to get better until the Brandenberg gate opens to let the Allies in. This paper is not a morning paper and not an evening paper. It is published at night, in the smallest of the small hours, and I am its sole subscriber, for it is the paper of my dreams. Whether ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 • Various

... brutum fulmen. Complaints of the difficulty, not to say impossibility, of enforcing Church discipline are of constant occurrence. In 1704 Archbishop Sharp, while urging his clergy to present 'any that are resolved to continue heathens and absolutely refuse to come to church,' and, while admitting that the abuses of the commutation for penance were 'a cause of complaints against the spiritual courts and of the invidious reflections cast upon them,' adds that ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

... crisis, representing without bluster the vastness of the social and political force behind them. JOHN WARD in weighty speech brought down the real question from nights of personal animosity and party rancour. It was "whether the discipline of the Army is to be maintained; whether it is to continue to be a neutral force to assist the civil power; or whether in future the House of Commons, representing the people, is to submit its decisions for approval ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914 • Various

... there was the kindness that assuaged it; there may have been wrong, but there was the charity that forgave it; and with both are connected inseparably so many thoughts that soften and exalt whatever else is in the sense of memory, that what is good and pleasurable in life would cease to continue so if these were forgotten. The old proverb does not tell you to forget that you may forgive, but to forgive that you may forget. It is forgiveness of wrong, for forgetfulness of the evil that was in it; such as poor old Lear begged ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster

... degree of success which had attended this "attempt to infuse into an almost literal English version something of the spirit, as well as the simplicity, of the great original," [Footnote: Introduction to unpublished volume.] were sufficiently favourable to encourage me to continue the work which I had begun. It has afforded me, in the intervals of more urgent business, an unfailing, and constantly increasing source of interest; and it is not without a feeling of regret at the completion of my task, and a sincere diffidence ...
— The Iliad • Homer


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